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March 21, 2009 at 4:56 pm
G’day luke,
We’ll know if your right in a few hours – about the scrapping through bit.
You are right – the Borg is no rocket scientist. Just don’t know who else is in there that would be better?
March 21, 2009 at 3:43 pm
hey guys – of course the courier mail came out in support of Springborg it always does.
Sadly for you guys, Anna is going to scrape through tonight, by the thinnest of margins. However, I think the LNP will win next time. The LNP should have got a new leader! Springborg has the same problem as beazily had !
March 21, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Meanwhile, there’s another big race underway shortly – the Clipsall 500 in Adelaide. Go the V8′s, go Jamie, go Craig, go the Fords.
The Broncos last night, Jamie, Craig or Frosty today, The Borg tonight, more Fords tomorrow – what a great weekend that would be.
March 21, 2009 at 11:37 am
All ways makes me mad when all this election campaigning is going on where does the campaigning take place. Certainly not out in the western inland parts thats for sure. The roads out here would be too rough for them and their precious cars, but we have to put up with all the rough roads 24/7. Then on top of that we are supposed to keep our cars road worthy or cop a fine. You travel 100′s of km’s on corraguated, pot holed rutted roads, shake the guts out of the your $100,000 truck just to give your cattle away at the sales and farmers are supposed to survive. You get a hefty fine if you miss spell a word in your log book but yet people can get away with murder. Since the amalgation of the shires we no longer even get our dirt goat tracks graded. Before the amalgation we did at least see the road graded once a year. When you travel anywhere in the south east corner all you see is billions of $’s being spent on road up grade, tunnels and the like. The world would be a better place if there were no politics.
March 21, 2009 at 10:29 am
Just done my bit down at the local school whose whole front fence was taken up with big multiple plastic posters of Capn Anna, with two of their local candidate crammed in. I didn’t need any of those or the teams of red-shirts handing out how to vote cards to know where to put my ’1′. And it wasn’t going to help the koala cuddler on TV last night.
Should be interesting viewing tonight.
Roll on, The Borg!
March 21, 2009 at 1:27 am
Of course Anna needs to go ….. just a pity Sideshow Bob and his bunch of clowns are the alternative. Have we conveniently forgotten the grubby infighting of the former Liberal Party who couldn’t even sit in the same room with each other let alone come up with a policy.
Ah well as long as we’re happy to go along with what Big Clive thinks is best for Qld (well him) we should be right – after all he seems like a decent chap. Go the BORG!
March 20, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Of course it’s rigged. Anna Bligh needs a “mandate” to govern after her party achieved a huge majority last time around? Yeah, right, Our main hope is that enough people in the southeast corner can see through the hype, the bungled Moreton Island rescue, the ex- Labor ministers facing serious charges or already convicted, or apologising for assaulting senior public servants but denying they lied, and getting off with their parliamentary pension in tact. the people dying in ambulances while waiting for admission to emergency wards … the burgeoning state credit debt after 11 years of good times …. the list goes on…. but will they ever learn?
Somehow I still have my doubts, but maybe Agmates combined power can make a real difference in regional areas where people can actually make it to a polling booth.
In the end, it may be up to you to make a real difference.
March 20, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Well I hope we can say GOOD-BYE Anna Bligh tomorrow, but have my doubts. Listerning to the ABC earlier this week about 2 rural voters who hadn’t recieved their postal vote forms in the mail on time makes me wonder just how many rural votes don’t get counted and if you have 10 days after the election is over for them to arrive and be counted well how can they say on election night who has won. Its all rigged in my opinion. And I hope all our city cousins remember all the hoorah they’ve faced in the South East corner under the Labor government. It’s now a case of you get what you vote for.
March 20, 2009 at 11:09 am
Are the winds of change about to blow through Queensland? It’s looking promising, and the Courier Mail came out strongly today with an editorial urging a vote for Lawrence Springborg and the LNP.
The scene in Queensland’s industrial capital of Gladstone is very interesting with sitting independent Liz Cunningham up against all the power and cash of the Labor machine determined to win back the seat after 13 years. Here’s what I have written for a regular column in Saturday’s Observer newspaper:
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“WELL it’s all over bar the shouting; today we vote and if anyone else feels like me they’ll be heaving a big sigh of relief.
It’s been a short campaign but I’m a bit sick of seeing Premier Anna Bligh bobbing up almost every second day in that yellow hard-hat that must be super-glued to her head while she inspects some Gladstone job site, makes a big announcement and doles out some cash.
Then there are the endless TV ads and news conferences where she waves her hands as though conducting some phantom orchestra in time with her chant of jobs, jobs, jobs, or “it’s a gas, gas, gas” to quote the old Stones hit.
In stark contrast, LNP leader Lawrence Springborg has been doing his own impersonation of Jumpin’ Jack Flash as he flits around the State to just about everywhere but Gladstone.
He has been accused of showing his disinterest by not gracing us with his presence. But it does not mean all that liquid natural gas, gas, gas and jobs, jobs, jobs will suddenly evaporate if his party wins government.
If he had visited without a local candidate, it probably would have led to more claims that a vote for our long-term Independent Member Liz Cunningham was a vote for the LNP – a link which she has strenuously denied.
Mrs Cunningham has battled on stoically as she has done in past elections while up against all the big guns and big money the ALP can line up against her. From PM Kevin Rudd down, they have flown in to support their candidate, Peter O’ Sullivan.
No money for the urgent $50 million upgrade of the airport though. (Remember, Anna told us recently where we could stick our airport – in the For Sale columns).
Oh, and there’s a Green’s candidate too, who doesn’t live here, doesn’t know about local issues, but who has heard about Baffle Creek, which is not in our electorate. Enough said.
Anyway, anything I say here is not likely to affect today’s vote in the slightest, especially for those who follow the old mantra of vote early, vote often (just kidding, honest).
Win, lose or draw, on the State scene it will mean a further descent into financial purgatory, or a new road to salvation, depending on your own viewpoint and your faith in the team or independent you select. Time will tell who is correct.
Did we need to go to the polls several months early in a “crisis election” mode to deliver a “mandate” to a team who were elected with a huge majority less than three years ago?
I thought they were empowered to make the right decisions for our great State the last time around, and the time before that. Have they done this?
That’s for you to decide. ”
So, will Anna be waving her hands to a different beat after the votes are tallied? Will the public deliver another message belted out by The Stones decades ago: “You’re Out of Time”….